ISIS Threat Laps the Caribbean
With the region’s porous borders and often weak state capacity to deal with security threats, regional governments must gear up to the challenges that face them.
Independently Wealthy: ISIL’s Sinews of War
One of the primary indicators of a violent extremist organization’s potential longevity is its ability to self-finance. Today, ISIL is the richest such group in the world.
The Women of Daesh: Thinking about a Decade of Research on Women, Gender, and Terrorism
So long as gender stereotypes rule our understandings of women’s participation in terrorism, those understandings will necessarily be partial.
After Paris: What Should (Not) Be Done?
In the wake of the Paris events, thinking more carefully about the contexts of these terror attacks is a useful start to normalising responses to terrorism.
India’s Complex Security Environment & the Need for International Partnerships
India needs to develop and implement effective strategies and tactics that address its diverse security environment in a multi-pronged and multi-layered manner.
Larval Terror and the Digital Darkside
When war becomes larval, it becomes pervasive and perpetual; the need for fear, for threats, for insecurity also become circulated within the spheres of everyday life.
The Politicisation of Orientalism: The Mutation of a Paradigm
The politicisation of Orientalism by the West had led to a mutation in the paradigm such that it has become not just a manifestation of imperialism but its instrument.
Kunduz – Beyond the Battleground
The latest military operations by the Taliban in the North of Afghanistan make obvious that the group seems not to be weakened at all, but even stronger than before.
Interview – H.A. Hellyer
Dr H.A. Hellyer answers questions on contemporary Islamist politics, relations between European states and their Muslim populations, and the Egyptian revolution of 2011.
White Women War Reporters: Interrogating the ‘Third Gender’ Category
White women war reporters are being classified as a third gender, enabling them to break into the war reporting career, but this only perpetuates patriarchal ideas.
